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 58 STRABO. CASAUB. 375. Its inhabitants were in succession Argives, Cretans, Epidauri- ans, and Dorians. At last the Athenians divided the island by lot among settlers of their own. The Lacedaemonians, however, deprived the Athenians of it, and restored it to the ancient in- habitants. The JEginettt sent out colonists to Cydonia 1 in Crete, and to the Ombrici. According to Ephorus, silver was first struck as money by Pheidon. The island became a mart, the inhabit- ants, on account of the fertility of its soil, employing them- selves at sea as traders ; whence goods of a small kind had the name of "-ZEgina wares." 17. The poet frequently speaks of places in succession as they are situated ; " they who inhabited Hyria, and Aulis ;" 2 " and they who occupied Argos, and Tiryns, Hermione, and Asine, Troezen, and ETones." 3 At other times he does not observe any order ; " Schremis, and Scolus, Thespeia, and Grsea." 4 He also mentions together places on the continent and islands ; " they who held Ithaca, and inhabited Crocyleia," 5 for Crocyleia is in Acarnania. Thus he here joins with JEgina Mases, which belongs to the continent of Argolis. Homer does not mention Thyreas, but other writers speak of it as well known. It was the occasion of a contest between the three hundred Argives against the same number of Lace- daemonians ; the latter were conquerors by means of a strata- gem of Othryadas. Thucydides places Thyreae in Cynuria, on the confines of Argia and Laconia. 6 Hysias also is a celebrated place in Argolica ; and Cenchreas, which lies on the road from Tegea to Argos, over the moun- tain Parthenius, and the Creopolus. 7 But Homer was not acquainted with either of these places, [nor with the Lyr- ceium, nor Ornea3, and yet they are villages in the Argian territory ; the former of the same name as the mountain there ; the latter of the same name as the Ornece, situated between Corinth and Sicyon]. 8 1 This colony must have been posterior to that of the Samians, the first founders of Cydonia. 2 II. ii. 496. 3 II. ii. 559. 4 II. ii. 497. 5 II. ii. 632. 6 Thucyd. ii. 27 ; iv. 56. 7 A place not known. 8 Probably interpolated.